Jumbos Start Strong at Tufts Cupid Challenge

MEDFORD, MA (February 7, 2025) - The Tufts University women's indoor track and field team kicked off the Tufts Cupid Challenge in the Gantcher Center on Saturday afternoon with the pentathlon.

Freshman Arielle Chechile finished second overall in the pentathlon, beginning with a solid performance in the 60m hurdles by finishing with a 9.89 for fifth place. She improved her position on the scoreboard with a fourth place finish in the high jump (1.50m) before placing 11th in the shot put - her first go at the event. She bounced back by winning the long jump with the NCAA Division III 74th best distance of 5.31m, 29 centimeters ahead of the competition. She concluded the pentathlon by winning the 800m run with room to spare. Her 2:24.43 was over five seconds ahead of second place finisher Livi Mazerolle of Williams, the eventual pentathlon winner.

Sophomore Tessa Player had a career day en route to a fifth place finish in the pentathlon. She began with a bang by setting a new personal best in the 60m hurdles with a 10.10. Her fifth place finish in the high jump was also a new personal best, an 11 centimeter improvement to 1.47m. She followed that up by shattering her personal best for shot put. Her 10.46m toss was an improvement by over a meter and earned her second place in the category. Her long jump of 4.83m was eight centimeters shy of her personal best, but still enough to earn fifth. She placed third in the 800m run with a 2:34.67 to finish fifth in the pentathlon overall.

Graduate student Maddy Silveira finished sixth in the pentathlon with her best event being a second place spot in the long jump (5.02m).

The Jumbos will feature the full squad in tomorrow's continuation of the Tufts Cupid Challenge beginning at 10:00am at the Gantcher Center.